<i>arc provided by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review</i>

I really did not understand this story. I’m not really sure what it was going for? I know it’s meant to be subtle and strange but even then I still didn’t pick up on what it was about.

This also had some ableist and fatphobic jokes that I really did not like.

This definitely was not the story for me.

1/5 🌟

[This review is based on an ARC.] I don't fully know how to rate this, as it's rather confusing and very strange (and I wonder if this was translated, and some of the 'sense' was lost in translation). But at the same time, the art is beautiful and parts of the whimsical but melancholy story are very striking and engaging. I'm rounding up to 3 stars, but it's more a 2.5. The ending was...much more on the bitter end of bittersweet, and I'm not sure it matches with the book description listed here, at least in terms of overall theme.

Well... The art style was okay, but I didn’t love it. The plot itself was basically a bunch of completely random scenes strung together into one giant mess. I was waiting for some explanation on what was going on, but never got one. What a waste of time.

This overly weird black and white comic features a girl living in a treehouse, her talking fox friend, their two enemies (a massive farmer on a tractor and a flock of black birds), and the spirit of the wind. Story-wise it's all over the place, with dream sequences, disjointed episodes and more. Visually it's sort of clean and clear, other times too flappy-hair-manga-battle, and it's trying to do things with scale it can't quite pull off. It's definitely one of those books the likes of which you'll never have seen before, but also it's kind of one nobody's made before for a reason.